Food spoils when the power goes out, exposing more people to hunger and food insecurity. But the crisis goes deeper than that.
Amid the widespread destruction, brutal heat, heavy rains, and ongoing outages along the Gulf coast, relief organizations are scrambling to ensure people stay fed in the wake of Hurricane Beryl. Ever since the storm made landfall near Matagorda, causing millions to lose power,106 degrees Fahrenheit Friday
“There are immediate needs that happen because of the storm. ‘I don’t have power. What am I going to cook?’” said Brian Greene, president of Houston Food Bank. “Then it really moves into the households that don’t have that financial cushion that took the hit. For those households, we may be working with them for many weeks.”
from a storm like Beryl can deepen the plight of families already battling hunger and push those on the verge of it over the “examined counties across the country in which Black and Latino families face high food insecurity rates and climate risk and pegged the average per capita cost of climate disaster over the past decade at $1,822. That’s about double the average cost for all other counties that experienced such events.
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